Going to the dentist is a very painful thing. Although I had never seen a tooth or been in a dentist before I studied dentistry, when I stood far from the door of what was said to be the dentist’s office as a child, my heart would always tremble and my sweat pores would shudder. No one ever talked to me about fillings or extractions, and it seemed that this fear was innate. But from a medical genetic point of view, this fear of dentistry is certainly not genetic and there is no innate fear of going to the dentist. I have been thinking and thinking about what it is that makes me so afraid of dentistry. The moment I remember going to the hospital and experiencing extreme fear was when I was about 5-6 years old, when I had an abscess under my chin. “It hurts, it hurts”, until the doctor said well, feel wet under the chin, a pile of pus and blood. The doctor’s hand was fast, and actually did not feel very painful, but the mental pain has exceeded the physical pain, more or less leaving a slight shadow. When I was a kid, I never went to the hospital to pull out my baby teeth, everyone was the same, the baby teeth were loose, the adults would take a suture, tie a live knot, put it on the neck of the tooth, and then pull the tooth with force and it was pulled off raw, it felt painful, but there was nothing you could do, because all children are like that. Over time, hospitals and dentistry became very scary places, and I think the fear of going to the dentist may be a result of these unconscious experiences. After I went to college, I learned the history of dentistry and knew that dentists were the same as shavers, they were craftsmen, just like scrubbers who could also do pedicures. Later, the division of labor gradually, and entered the hall of medicine, and became a member of the doctor. The earliest machines used to grind teeth are foot pedal, like a spinning machine, dozens of revolutions per minute, no anesthetic, hard drilling and grinding on the teeth, must be very painful, and no different from the torture, especially when grinding to the nerve, the kind of pain who do not want to imagine. Then there is the mutual exchange of people, folk artists, the colorful performance, so that the fear of dental care is deeply rooted in the hearts of everyone who has seen the dental disease and not seen the dental disease. There are almost joke-like depictions, when a strong warrior who suffers from torture and would rather die than give in, in front of the squeaky dental drill completely reveals his secret. It is clear how frightening it is to see a dentist, who will stay away from it. Patients are afraid of dental visits because they are afraid of the pain and the journeymen who don’t know how they will go about pounding in their mouths. And doctors sometimes unconsciously act as reinforcers of this fear when it comes to causing dental phobia. There is the intimidation of the child: “If you don’t cooperate, you will be tied up, locked in a small room, crack your mouth open and pull out the teeth”, so the child obediently obeys, but only this time, the next time dead or alive. There are also self-exaggerated knowledge: “This tooth is no longer working, if you look at it later, you will have to how to how,” and then describe in detail all the fearful actions of the dental care, straight to the patient’s face sweating, thinking that the patient will not dare to see the tooth again. If these pains and fears during dental visits were said five or ten years ago, it would have been justifiable, because the conditions then were not as good as now. But science is developing, although it is not yet able to eliminate the sound of the dental drill, but more than 300,000 revolutions per minute cutting teeth, than the old car-like slow drill will be a lot of pain, even if there is pain, will be completed in a flash. Maybe in the near future, a filling technology that does not require a dental drill will be applied to the clinic, such as laser filling technology, and at that time, dentistry will not be like a workshop as it is now. So now, can we say “goodbye” to the phobia of dentistry, the answer is yes. The answer is yes, because we have effective anesthetic and anesthesia techniques, the humanistic care of doctors, and the art of psychological guidance. Except for the painful injection of anesthetic, it is possible to have a “pain-free” dental visit. Of course, we cannot exclude the differences of individual doctors and the unbalanced development of medical technology, so this painless technology cannot be realized in all dentists and dental clinics in this era, but there is still hope, and you can choose good dentistry and good doctors. It is still a headache to go to the dentist, maybe knowing that it will not be painful, but when you open your mouth and let a doctor who does not know what will happen to you pound in your mouth there is always a space of fear in your imagination, although lying in the dental chair is comfortable, but a few hours of “torture” is not a pleasant thing. So, we recommend early visit, early detection and early treatment, a shallow cavity can be filled in a few minutes. Check your teeth regularly and heed your doctor’s advice, and you may never “enjoy” the “pleasure” of grinding your teeth again. Make friends with your dentist and have your own dentist just like the “foreign lord”, and you will naturally say “bye bye” to your dental phobia.